THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941. ASSISTANT TO MR. DUFF COOPER SAYS:
BRITAIN
MUCH STRONGER
IN FAR
FAR EAST
EAST THAN EVER BEFORE
"IF JAPAN does think of attacking Malaya, she will have her hands full, for the Japanese must realise now that we are much stronger in the Far East than ever before, and as time goes on the pos- sibility of the United States entering the war be- comes greater," said Mr. William Denis Allen, second secretary to the British Embassy in Chung- king, on his arrival in Singapore.
Mr. Allen is to act as assistant to Mr. A. Duff Cooper, the British Cabinet Minister, who is on a mission for the War Cabinet.
"Japan." said Mi Allen in an in- terview with the "Straits Times," "must have since felt the effect of the United States freezing order and American and to Russia. Sho Cannot fail to observe also that the Alman attitude in regard to the hau bem... increasingly
stronger.
N Allen said the
Chinese 113
Chrungkaret hoped that America
world enter the Whi of the pitiion tt
They were it Japanese|
expansion' continued, the United
Stans would hove to act more i drastically than she had done Aitherto
GREEKS
FETE WAR
CAPTIVES
("Daily Telegraph"
Anglo-Chinese relations had Special Correspondent)
been brought closer following the
recent events in Europe, and it) was quite natural that the Chinese tended to Judge
Despite frequent and their relations severe
penalties, with Britain by the effect of Bri-
the
tish policy in Hong Kong, Singa- Greeks, I learn, continue pore and Burma, Mr. Allen suid. to show their pro-British Chinese felt that the German, sentiments as wholeheart- attack ол Russia had "sim- edly as two months ago.
plified" the world situation.] They knew now where they stood with Japan, Germany and Italy on one side, and Rus sia, Britain and China on the
other.
Thus on the arrival of British prisoners from Crete recently, the people of Athens lined the streets applauding the
and throwing flowers and cigarel es
prisosers
Asked about Chungking's reac- to them. tion to Japan's acquisition of bases
Again when a British 'plane in French Indo-China, Mr. Allen stated that the Chinese felt that crashed near Athens and the crew the more
firmly established the were killed Athenians flocked
formed 2 in the place and themselves Japanese made Indo-China, the more serious be-guard of honour. came their threat to the Burma Road.
Threat To Yunnan "It is not so much the potential threat to Thailand that the Chinese are concerned with as the possi- hility of a Japanese move through Yunnan to cut off China's vital supplies along the Burma Road," he said.
to silent
Then, despite German vigilance further assaults are being made on the swastika flag flying on the Acropolis, Mud and refuse are
whoi slung at it by young men climbed up secretly at night.
Will Not Yield
Greeks
A certain number of Continue to get away from their country, and they come to Cairo in
It was, therefore, very impor tant that China should keep ports which they bring confirm
a steady trickle. All reliable re-
in close collaboration to achieve that object.
the impression formed before the
"JUST A SHAVE"
IS OFF
"No shaving" notices have appeared on bar- ber shops in some Kent towns. Shaving with- out a haircut does not
pay.
"I have been asked for only six shaves this week," said a barber at Bexley.
"All the young men are in the Forces. The older men shave them- selves.
"We can't afford to the hot water pay for needed for the few shaves ordered with- out haircutting or shampoo.
SAYS HUSBAND BANNED DANCES
Dorothy Cecilia Binns, wife of Gunner Ivor Binns. R.A.. told Carlisle magistrates that when he joined the Army her husband or- dered ber to send to him each week hall her Army allowance of 2bs. and bank the rest in his
name.
"I continued in work as a shop assistant," said Mrs. Binns, who applied for a reparation order. "My husband forbade me to go to dances or to cafes.'
The magistrates adjourned the case for a month, told the wife to stick to her Army allowance, and ordered the husband not to molest her meanwhile.
V
MOSCOW HELD HIM PRISONER
Mr. Bruce Lockhart, it was an open that vital supply route, and
of Com- that she and Britain should work German conquest that the occu-nounced in the House
pation of Greece would form amons is to advise the Ministry of liability rather than an asset to Information on foreign policy. the Axis.
He was acting Consul-General The Chinese, he said, did not
from the In Moscow-
1915 to 1917. know much about Burma before The population show not
to hostilities began, but through the slightest inclination
yield When the Bolshevist revolution On he was recalled. Japanese threat to her freedom either to threats or blandishments, broke out and their ideas of a "southward Meanwhile the food situation he being sent back in 1918 he was expansion," Chinese came to comes ever more desperate. These Arrested and imprisoned in the realise the importance of Burma two facts are the
outstanding
Kremlin.
to them and the maintenance of characteristics of life in Greeco].
Ile Was exchanged fr M. the Burma Road.
to-day.
Litvinov, who had been detained Relations between China and Burma had grown closer since that The Germans and Italians. buy in England. He is 52. discovery, and there had been a up all the meat available in the; regular inter-change of visitors stores, and vegetables are prac- and officials between the two tically the only food available to countries. Relations were now the population. Bread supplies much closer than before.
are extremely short.
;
No Negotiated Peace It is said that the Germans have begun to use forced labour China was prepared to prosecute on a scheme for widening the the war with Japan Indefinitely Corinth Canal to enable it to take and there was no possibility of a warships of the largest size, but negotiated peace materialising be- this report lacks trustworthy con- tween the two countries, Mr, Allen Formation. added: W
Mr. Allen went on to describe the attitude-of-the-population of Chungking in face of the continu- ed air raids NA
The saying that every visi tor to London remarks, "Your policemen are wonderful' applica also to the morale of the Chung king populace," he said. "Their morale le wonderful;, it is ox- traordinary. As soon as raiders have passed: construction of now buildings continues,"
TWO BRITISH
FREIGHTERS
TORPEDOED
V
TRIED SHOCK
FROM LIGHT
Attempted suicide. by electro- cution by their house electricity. supply was alleged - against Ser- geant Hedley Steer and his wife, Catherine Isable, of Howard Road, Catterick, who were bound over for six months at Richmond, Yorks.
A neighbour heard screams, and In their bathroom found Sergeant Steer with an electric wire nt- tached to his wrist and connected with the light in the ceiling. Both were lying on the floor,
Sergeant and Mrs Steer were
According to shipping quarters taken to hospital, both badly
Mr. Allen, who arrived with his in New York two British freigh burned. wife, was formerly attached to the ters, the Sangara and the Elisa- Foreign Office in London. He was hoth, have been torpedoed in the
sent to Shanghai before being Atlantic.
transferred to Chungking, where These quarters also revealed tured by British men-of-war and
he had been for the past year.“ that two French ships were cap-takon to Gibraltar.
"I can tell
WHITE
HORSE
blindfold
.. it's equal to a fine liqueur”
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